[Treatment of tinnitus with the TENS stimulator in cervico-arthrosis patients. Preliminary results]. / Il trattamento con stimolatore TENS degli acufeni nei pazienti cervicoartrosici. Risultati preliminari.

The combination of ear buzzing and cervical arthrosis is frequently encountered in both ENT practice and physiatry. A group of 16 patients presenting this combination was therefore selected. After a series of ENT and physiatric tests the patients were subjected to audiological and radiographic examination in order to exclude any pathologies different from the two under study. Each patients was then subjected to a cycle of 12 periauricular TENS sessions and was examined at the end of the cycle and one month later. Brief bibliographical notes on this subjects are presented and the results obtained are reported and discussed.